Mike Werb met his writing and producing partner, Michael Colleary, when they were both graduate students at the UCLA School of Film and Television. Werb sold his car to go to film school, but the high price may have been a good thing in the long run. Read more...

Every year as a child in Northern Thailand, Waewdao Sirisook and other children would take the jasmine-scented water from the bowl her family prepared, kneel on the floor, and sprinkle it onto the hands of her elders as a sign of respect. Read more...

One thing Westwood doesn’t have a shortage of, aside from USC students hanging out at Diddy Riese, is sandwich shops. From the overpriced South Philly to the Roll Inn Sandwich Shop (which is also called Buck Fitty’s, depending on which side you take in this contentious debate), sandwiches can be had on just about every street in the city. Read more...

In everyday conversations about music, “song” is a term used rather loosely. The way people talk, it seems to apply to any sort of music we care to refer to. Read more...

When Cynthia Lee came to UCLA for graduate school, she was surprised to see familiar faces. “I thought, “˜This is weird. There are so many people who look like me,'” Lee said. Read more...

This isn’t going to surprise anyone, but I don’t download music from iTunes. My reasons for this are numerous, but it’s mainly that I have a problem spending a dollar per song on music that I don’t physically own. Read more...

In “Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson” at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the artist’s hand might be trumped by the artist’s mouth. It is the artist’s mouth, after all, that forms the suckers on the arms of “Octopus,” one of four works commissioned by the Getty for this exhibition. Read more...